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it was added to the house by john and susan bixby. john and susan bixby were the first bixby's to ranch here. the bixby family is a large family, originally from new england, from maine, and they came out here right after the gold rush with cousins and they started out selling things to the miners. they had a butcher shop. they started buying up some of the land that was here in california after california became part of the united states and they started in central california, but ended up down here in southern california and at first, they purchased a ranch here in long beach, which was one of the original holdings. he lived there with his wife and he invited other bixby relatives to help him on the ranch as well as some of his wives relatives. one of the cousins who came out to help was john bixby. he was a young man from maine, he had been a schoolteacher, carpenter, cabinet maker, quite young when he arrived in california. when he was on the ranch, he was learning how to become a rancher. he met his sister-in-law, susan hathaway,
it was added to the house by john and susan bixby. john and susan bixby were the first bixby's to ranch here. the bixby family is a large family, originally from new england, from maine, and they came out here right after the gold rush with cousins and they started out selling things to the miners. they had a butcher shop. they started buying up some of the land that was here in california after california became part of the united states and they started in central california, but ended up...
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it was added to the house by john and susan bixby. bixby were the here.bixby's to ranch the bixby family is a large family, originally from new england, from maine, and they came out here right after the gold rush with cousins and they started out selling things to the miners. they had a butcher shop. they started buying up some of the land that was here in california after california became part of the united states started in central california, but ended up down here in southern california and at first, they purchased a ranch here in long beach, which was one of the original holdings. he lived there with his wife and he invited other bixby relatives to help him on the ranch as well as some of his wives relatives. one of the guys who came out was john bixby. he was a young man from maine, he had been a schoolteacher, carpenter, cabinet maker, quite young when he arrived in california. when he was on the ranch, he was learning how to become a rancher. sister-in-law, susan hathaway, and he married her. the adjoining rancho became avai
it was added to the house by john and susan bixby. bixby were the here.bixby's to ranch the bixby family is a large family, originally from new england, from maine, and they came out here right after the gold rush with cousins and they started out selling things to the miners. they had a butcher shop. they started buying up some of the land that was here in california after california became part of the united states started in central california, but ended up down here in southern california...
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this room, just in called the old garden, or installed by john and susan bixby. when fred and florence xp took over, florence -- florence picks be to go over -- bixby took over, -- oil anddiscovery of because the bixby's were large owners -- large landowners, and a lot of oil was under the land. more incomeem a lot to play with than just the ranch would provide, so florence bixby of thee to hire some premier landscape architects of -- early 1920's, including through the auspices of her sister. we have four acres of beautiful landscape gardens. >> there are many levels. one of the things that is important to us is you get some relief from being in a certain environment. the whole visitor experience is not terrifically structured. you can come and just be in the garden. you can come and decide to take a house tour. you can, decide you want to explore the center here in the fields. -- wee this unstructured try to be unstructured as -- an interesting as we cancer people can take on it what they want. -- take from it what they want. >> we recently traveled to long bea
this room, just in called the old garden, or installed by john and susan bixby. when fred and florence xp took over, florence -- florence picks be to go over -- bixby took over, -- oil anddiscovery of because the bixby's were large owners -- large landowners, and a lot of oil was under the land. more incomeem a lot to play with than just the ranch would provide, so florence bixby of thee to hire some premier landscape architects of -- early 1920's, including through the auspices of her sister....
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the old garden, were installed by john and susan bixby. when fred and florence took over, florence began slowly expanding the gardens. one of the things that happened here in long beach in the early 1920's, was the discovery of oil. because the bixby's were very large landowners, a lot of the oil was under their land. this gave them a lot more income to play with than just the ranch would provide. florence bixby was able to hire some of the premier landscape architects, including the olmsted brothers. we have four acres of beautiful landscaped gardens. >> there are many levels, you get some relief from being in an environment. you can come and just be in the gardens and not do anything beyond that. you can decide just to take a house tour. we tried to keep it as unstructured and interesting as we can so people can take what they want. >> always long, american history tv is joining our communications cable partners to showcase a his three of long beach, california. to learn more about the cities on our current tour, visit c-span.org. we con
the old garden, were installed by john and susan bixby. when fred and florence took over, florence began slowly expanding the gardens. one of the things that happened here in long beach in the early 1920's, was the discovery of oil. because the bixby's were very large landowners, a lot of the oil was under their land. this gave them a lot more income to play with than just the ranch would provide. florence bixby was able to hire some of the premier landscape architects, including the olmsted...